The Future? | Oakland A's Fantasy Franchise

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"Game Recap"

Oakland jumped out early and often on Joe Blanton forcing him out after only 1.1 innings pitched allowing the Athletics to sit some of their starters at the beginning of this long 20 games in 20 days stretch of the schedule. Jim Thome hit a 3 run homerun in the 1st inning. Then in the 2nd inning David Wright hit his 150th career homerun in style blasting a grand slam into the left field stands and was congratulated at home plate (Pictured Above). Jay Bruce would put an exclamation point on the inning with a solo shot on the very next pitch. Baltimore would score 3 runs in the 4th inning, but that was all she wrote as the A's go on to win 9-3.

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"End of Series Team Stats"

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At.
4 Game Series



"Oakland Athletics" (25-23) - 3.96 ERA - .287 BA - Ranked #3
At.
"Detroit Tigers" (21-27) - 4.56 ERA - .264 BA - Ranked #4



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"Projected Pitching Match Ups"

"Game #1"
(OAK) Tommy Hanson (3-2) - 4.25 ERA - 39 K's - 16 BB's - 55.0 INN - 9 Starts
Vs.
(DET) Brian Moehler (2-5) - 3.88 ERA - 26 K's - 22 BB's - 51.0 INN - 9 Starts

"Game #2"
(OAK) Stephen Strasburg (4-1) - 3.49 ERA - 58 K's - 13 BB's - 56.2 INN - 9 Starts
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(DET) Luke Hochevar (1-4) - 5.25 ERA - 29 K's - 15 BB's - 48.0 INN - 9 Starts

"Game #3"
(OAK) Felix Hernandez (5-1) - 2.43 ERA - 61 K's - 7 BB's - 66.2 INN - 10 Starts
Vs.
(DET) Tim Lincecum (2-5) - 3.72 ERA - 57 K's - 33 BB's - 67.2 INN - 10 Starts

"Game #4"
(OAK) Clayton Kershaw (2-3) - 4.50 ERA - 49 K's - 14 BB's - 58.0 INN - 10 Starts
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(DET) Adam Wainwright (5-4) - 4.64 ERA - 46 K's - 28 BB's - 64.0 INN - 10 Starts



"Injury Notes"

"Oakland Athletics"
No Injuries

"Detroit Tigers"
No Injuries

[Buckeye]

When can we expect heyward?

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Quote: Originally Posted by Codyjohnpaul

When can we expect heyward?

I am not sure if he will make it to the bigs this season. He is going to be the opening day starter at left field next season for sure when Edmonds retires and possibly Podsednik. Podsednik will be a bench warmer if he don't retire. He will be up in September for sure, but just not sure if it will be before the call ups or not. Injuries will play a big factor aswell.

[Buckeye]

Oh. I would bring him up just to try him out.

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Quote: Originally Posted by Codyjohnpaul

Oh. I would bring him up just to try him out.

He had a rough April in AAA, but has been on fire in May. I may do that. I want to check out Aroldis Chapman aswell. It depends on what happens during the season I guess.

I chose Austin Jackson over Heyward in the 1st place only because of the speed factor for center field. I don't think Heyward can play there, but left is a good position for him I think since Bruce has right locked up.

"Game Recap"

Detroit jumped out to a huge lead that they would never give up even though they tried. Pedro Feliz and Jason Bartlett combined for 3 RBI's int he 1st inning. Feliz and Bartlett once again came through in the 3rd inning with a 2 run triple by Feliz and a sac fly by Bartlett (Pictured Above) to give their team a 6-0 lead. Jim Edmonds started the Oakland come back with a huge grand slam in the 4th inning and Jim Thome hit a solo homerun in the 6th inning, but the Tigers bull pen buckled down and held on for the 6-5 victory.

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"Game Recap"

Angel Salome hit his 5th homerun of the year in the 2nd inning to opposite field for the early 2-0 lead and the Athletics would not look back as Stephen Strasburg pitched 6.1 innings of shut out baseball. David Wright tripled in a runner in the 3rd inning and Jay Bruce hit a 2 run homerun in the next at bat to go up 5-0 (Pictured Above). David Wright, J.J. Hardy and Angel Salome would single in the remaining 3 runners for the 8-1 victory.

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"Game Recap"

Oakland jumped out to the early lead with a RBI triple by Jay Bruce scoring David Wright on the play. With Austin Jackson on 1st base in the 3rd David Wright hit a rocket to left field for the 2 run homerun (Pictured Above) and the 3-0 lead. Jim Thome would double in Jay Bruce ending the 3 run inning. Antonio Yan singled home Pedro Feliz and Jason Bartlett in the 5th inning to get within 2 runs. In the 9th inning Trevor Hoffman would come in and try to notch his 600th career save, but Jason Bartlett hit a liner to center that was miss played by Austin Jackson and Bartlett would fly around the diamond with a 2 run in the park homerun to tie up the game and force Hoffman to wait another day. In the 11th inning Oakland had the bases loaded with no outs, but were unable to get any batter across to score. n the 12th inning though the wheels came off for Detroit as Oakland scored 3 runs on a walk and 3 singles to go up 7-4 and pull out the victory.

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